CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Read the analysis about these announcements in this month’s column, and a discussion of more trends in advisor technology, including: Merrill Lynch launches a new ‘Merrill Match’ system that downplays an advisor’s geography and focuses more on advisor ‘fit’ with respect to expertise, meeting preferences, and communication style.

Compliance 130

Compliance Communication Planning Concentration 130

CFO Talks

JUNE 2, 2022

Dean Schweizer is CFO of Astoria Investments, a public company listed in Mauritius, with investments in sectors like retail, mining, alternate gaming, education and asset-backed finance into the vehicle trade industry. CFO Talks is a brand of the South African Institute of Business Accountants.

Auditing 52

Auditing Education Construction Investments 52

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

After all, in a world where prospecting was almost entirely a function of networking and establishing relationships with Centers Of Influence who could refer the advisor, almost by definition the advisor’s marketing efforts would concentrate on the local market where they could engage in such in-person relationship-building.

Planning 130

Planning Technology Valuation Communication 130

CFO Talks

JUNE 2, 2022

Dean Schweizer is CFO of Astoria Investments, a public company listed in Mauritius, with investments in sectors like retail, mining, alternate gaming, education and asset-backed finance into the vehicle trade industry. CFO Talks is a brand of the South African Institute of Business Accountants.

Auditing 40

Auditing Education Construction Investments 40

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

With each decade, you can see the effect of regional and sector performance in the previous decade; the 1990 list is dominated by Japanese stocks, reflecting the rise of Japanese equities in the 1980s, and the 2000 list by technology and communication companies, benefiting from the dot-com boom.

Valuation 104

Valuation Profit and Loss Accounting Investments 104

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. We saw that concentrated exposure, right, with the — the — the staff that came out, that 85 percent of the world’s wheat production.

Investments 114

Investments Marketing Profit and Loss Banking 114

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

And interestingly, I’m happy to come back to these things I learned in helping companies through mergers, particularly around things like communications and shareholder relations, and employee engagement that have now served me really well, couple decades later in my career. RITHOLTZ: Lab — so we’ll get to hospitality.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 60

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Construction Concentration 60

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

And most people think of Bill, his bread and butter business is activist, very concentrated stock investing, but he has a bit of a background in macro too, back from ’07, ’08, and he actually decides to do this in the credit markets, where spreads are incredibly tight. RITHOLTZ: Retail just is nothing at all.

Treasury 52

Treasury Economics Retail Entertainment 52

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

With those phones, customers are completing an ever-increasing series of activities: communicating (of course), but also shopping, banking and paying. Markets like Australia, which has a highly concentrated banking and retail system, make ignition easier. is making a major contactless push with its Visa-branded cards.

Banking 75

Banking Concentration Marketing Communication 75

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

So you would see pretty high concentrations of, you know, $100 million, $200 million, $300 million, all essentially sitting on a single balance sheet of the bank. We don’t invest in oil and gas and restaurants and retail and more volatile businesses. You said no restaurants, no retail, no oil and gas. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 56

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Finance Investments Banking 56

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

RITHOLTZ: The Bureau of Business Prevention is how the retail brokers used to describe compliance. You could probably build a better communications strategy. You have a concentrated securities position, right? And quite often, when you find a dispute with a client, it comes down to poor communications. RITHOLTZ: Right.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 60

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Compliance Investments Finance 60

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Among other restrictions in the proposal, only one broker would be permitted to work at each RSL, the broker would not be allowed to meet with clients or handle securities or funds at the location, and the broker would be required to use the parent firm’s electronic communication system.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 130

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Profit and Loss Investments Valuation 130

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

So I wanted to challenge myself, improve my communication skills, you know, through, through the writing process. So bears capitulated from institution, from retail investors, and the three month VIX versus VIX move below one to suggest, you know, capitulation on that indicator. Said, you know what? So large caps become big caps.

Marketing 60

Marketing Leadership Finance Investments 60

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

That explaining that process and communication to people built confidence. You’re outperforming, you’re, you’re putting up good numbers that’s on a concentrated portfolio and it’s 10, 15, 20 stocks are the drivers. And one by one they began to give us some capital. Real really interesting.

Investments 113

Investments Marketing Numbers Entertainment 113

CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

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Concentration 130

Concentration Economics Manufacturing Numbers 130